CopyCited 62 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida
...ees of constables shall be as provided in § 30.23." Section 30.23, F.S. '41, as amended, F.S.A., does not expressly provide mileage or other fees for a sheriff or constable who might go out of the State of Florida to return a fugitive from justice. Section 30.24, F.S....
...quired to go beyond the limits of this state to bring back a prisoner charged with any crime should be allowed the sum of 7 cents per mile for the actual distance traveled by him beyond the limits of this state and 7 cents per mile for his prisoner. Section 30.24, F.S....
CopyCited 34 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 25524, 2007 WL 3197534
...However, ACCS fails to meet each element of the
Shands test. First, in this case, state law and the contract define ACCS as an
independent contractor, and not an agent. Florida statutes make a distinction between
“independent contractor” and “agent.” Compare Fla. Stat. § 30.24(2)(b) with Fla.
Stat....
CopyCited 15 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...eign immunity. 10 Florida case law states
the point even more clearly. In Dorse v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc., the
Supreme Court of Florida explained that “an entity or business acting as an
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Compare, e.g., Fla. Stat. § 30.24(2)(b) (“independent contractors” transporting
prisoners “shall be solely liable for the prisoner while the prisoner is in the custody of the
company”), id....
CopyPublished | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 13263
... Thus, while PCSO and G4S may have stated they were not creating an agency
relationship, they nevertheless did so by virtue of PCSO retaining and exercising
extensive control over G4S's operations.
We have considered the application of section 30.24(2)(b), Florida
Statutes (2012), but it does not impact our analysis. Section 30.24 is entitled
"Transportation and return of prisoners" and provides, in pertinent part:
(2)(a) The sheriff of each county of the state is authorized to
contract with private transport companies for the...
...prisoners
as provided for in this section shall be insured and shall
provide no less than $100,000 in liability insurance with
respect to the transporting of the prisoners.
(Emphasis added.)
Section 30.24 does not waive sovereign immunity or address sovereign
immunity in any manner. While section 30.24(b) gives private transport companies
independent contractor status, this status does not preclude such companies from being
agents of the state for purposes of sovereign immunity....
...rol except with
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respect to his physical conduct is an agent and also an independent contractor." Id.
(quoting Restatement (Second) of Agency § 14N (Am. Law Inst. 1957)).
Likewise, section 30.24's requirements of holding the sheriff harmless and
maintaining $100,000 in liability insurance are not inconsistent with the application of
sovereign immunity....
CopyPublished | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66463, 2008 WL 2058517
...soliciting class members to opt out of the litigation — will sometimes be justified.” Great Rivers Cooperative of Southeastern Iowa v. *562 Farmland Industries, Inc.,
59 F.3d 764, 766 (8th Cir.1995) (quoting Manual for Complex Litigation, Second §
30.24 at 232 (citing Kleiner v....
...ement offers directly to putative class members. Cox, 214 F.R.D. at 699 ; Bublitz v. E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co., 196 F.R.D. 545, 548 (S.D.Iowa 2000). However, a defendant may not abuse that right. Id. (citing Manual for Complex Litigation, Third § 30.24 at 233 (1995)) (“Defendants ordinarily are not precluded from communications with putative class members, including discussions of settlement offers with individual class members before certification, but may not give false or misleading i...
